This is the blog of the online CRBR, a forum for people who work on Belgian refugees during WW1 (UK, FR, NL...) and for people who want to share their personal history.

Saturday, 31 May 2014

Jean Stevens, Richmond

Jean
François Joseph Stevens, a soldier from the artillery division that defended
the fortresses of Liège, was born in Borgloon, Limburg, on 29 April 1884.

He
died on 22 December 1918, 41 days after Armistice. He lies buried in Richmond
Cemetery, a CWGC cemetery. The local cemetery records in fact deem him to be
female. A message was sent to those responsible of both records and website data.

Just how he came to die is not known just yet. Of the nearly 42,000
Belgian soldiers who were killed during the war, 4000 died after
Armistice.